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Example sentences for: whalebone

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Much later, during the progressive first quarter of this century, pierced ears for women became utterly unfashionable, a sign of Victorian bondage as abhorrent as whalebone corsets and the double marital bed.
Prudie supposes if you're Brooke Astor, e-mail might not cut it, but the handwritten bread and butter note is starting to seem like the whalebone corset, given the modern possibilities.
Plotting with or against their statesman, courting the populace, negotiating treaties, or ordering executions, those formidable rulers never failed to appear ostentatiously clad in vast padded and jewel-encrusted dresses, their torsos boxed in whalebone, their hair glued into smooth rolls upholding pearls and plumes.
Caniçal was once a famous whaling port, but since whaling was banned in these waters in 1981, all that remains of this formerly lucrative industry is a Museum of Whaling and a few scrimshaw and whalebone souvenirs in a hut by the beach (more of the same is on sale at the car park at the end of the road heading east).